LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Gallant Mechanic
ON 21st October last the mechanic of the Hartlepool Motor Life-boat, Mr.
H. W. Jefferson, was at work in the Boat-house cleaning the engine. He went on deck to turn the crank-shaft by hand, and the engine backfired and set...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Unusual hazard Sir - I was skipper of the yacht Dalriada when she sank in the small hours of 2 July 1988 (Lifeboat Services, Winter issue), and was eventually transferred to the shore from HMS Battleaxe by Coxswain Billy Lennon and the...
Category: Correspondence
March
MARCH Launches 90. Lives rescued 132.
MARCH 2ND. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. At 4.30 A.M. information was received from the King’s Harbour Master that signals of distress were being shewn in Jennycliffe Bay, and the motor life-boat...
Category: Services
Margaret
THORPE.—On the 10th November, the schooner Margaret, of Goole, riding off Thorpeness during a S.S.W. gale, was observed to drag her anchor. She slipped her cable, but her rudder chains broke, she became unmanageable, and drove on to the...
Mozambique Mission
You haven't got a cat's chance in hell of achieving anything in those boats' said one local, smiling knowingly as he looked at the HNLI's collection of D class lifeboats...To add further concern, a boatman with 20 years'...
Category: Articles
Salvage Payments to Life-Boats' Crews
WE revert to this subject, because we think it very important that it should be under- stood, and because a legal decision has re- cently been given in an important case, which will no doubt hereafter have the authority of a precedent, and...
Category: Articles
Nyanza
ST. AGNES, ISLES OF SCILLY.—Signals having been fired by the Bishop Bock Lighthouse, on the 26th May, the Lifeboat James and Caroline was launched at 12.15 p.m., and found the lugger Nyanza, of Penzance, engaged in the mackerel fishery, at...
Decks Awash In a Near Gale Padstow's 48' 6" Oakley Lifeboat James and Catherine Macfarlane Tows Home the 90' Beam Fishing Trawler Elizabeth Ann Webster Which Ha
Decks awash in a near gale, Padstow's 48' 6" Oakley lifeboat, James and Catherine Macfarlane, tows home the 90' beam fishing trawler, Elizabeth Ann Webster, which had broken down off Tintagel Head. Photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreline
THE COMPETITION for the Renault STL car is still progressing well. The draw will be made at the Motor Fair at Earls Court on October 28 and the lucky winner will be published in the next issue of THE LIFEBOAT. Your response has been most...
Category: Articles
Dundee
On the 26th January the Life-boat Mary Frederick was again called out for service. Signals having been seen, in very foggy weather, the crew of the Lifeboat were summoned. The boat was launched at 6.30 A.M., and proceeded through a strong...